In the media

From the Guardian:

Ed Davey, the energy and climate change secretary, is to use a major speech at Clarence House on Wednesday afternoon to fight back against the increasingly vocal climate change scepticism among other parts of the coalition.

Edward Davey joined over a thousand scouts, cubs and beavers for their St George's Day parade and celebrations in Our Lady Immaculate Church in Tolworth. 

Kingston and Surbiton MP has today addressed an assembly at Hollyfield School with the theme ‘My Life Journey’.

In this assembly Edward Davey spoke about what life as an MP and Cabinet Minister is like as well as what inspired him to go into politics in the first place.

Commenting, Edward Davey said,

From The Observer:

Tens of billions of pounds of investment in low-carbon, job-creating energy infrastructure projects that are "ready to go" could be lost to Britain because of an anti-green movement that is sweeping through the Tory party, the Liberal Democrat energy secretary warns today.

From BBC News:

Households with pre-payment meters who owe up to £500 to their energy supplier will be able to switch to cheaper deals with another firm under new measures.

From The Telegraph:

Ed Davey, the Energy Secretary, and Danny Alexander, the Chancellor’s number two, will call for electricity to be made almost entirely from green sources such as wind farms and nuclear by 2030.

From the BBC:

The Energy Secretary Ed Davey has moved to defend renewables after the appointment of two anti-wind ministers in the reshuffle.

The new Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson, and Energy Minister, John Hayes, both oppose wind farms.

From The Guardian:

A bitter row between the Treasury and the energy department over subsidies for wind energy has ended in a victory for the Lib Dem energy secretary, Ed Davey.

From reNews Europe:

Edward Davey, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, argued onshore wind power is a cost effective and valuable part of the UK’s diverse energy mix.

From the Telegraph:

Last year George Osborne, the Chancellor, made it clear he was not willing to let climate change policies be a burden on British business.

“We should not price British business out of the global economy. If we burden them with endless social and environmental burdens - however worthy in their own right - then not only will we not achieve those goals but the businesses will fail, jobs will be lost and our country will be poorer,” he said.

However, in a speech to the Clean Energy Ministerial, a meeting of 23 ministers representing 80 per cent of the world’s energy use, in London, Mr Davey insisted that in a time of “scepticism and doubt”, the Coalition remain committed to being the “greenest Government ever”.

From the Surrey Comet:

One in three children are living below the poverty line in parts of Kingston and the numbers could rise when they are reassessed this summer.

Poverty-stricken children are still living in cramped, unheated homes, struggling at school, and having to deal with alcoholic or drug-taking parents, according to official reports.

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From the Telegraph

In a direct challenge to Tory eurosceptics, Ed Davey said it would be “reckless” and “unwise” to rule out joining the euro.

The Energy and Climate Change Secretary dismissed David Cameron’s veto of a new European Union treaty as nothing more than a “blip” in Britain’s relationship with Brussels.

From Sky News

Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey said: "The potential rewards from carbon capture and storage are immense: a technology that can de-carbonise coal and gas-fired power stations and large industrial emitters, allowing them to play a crucial part in the UK's low carbon future.

From The House magazine

The newest member of the Cabinet rejected a career in espionage for the greener mission of keeping Britain’s lights on